Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undergraduates who applied for tickets will be given seats, however, and this is a major reason why some alumni will be left out in the cold. The ticket office reserves sections 33-37, and in this case end-zone and standing room sections, about 9000 seats, for undergraduates and their guests...
...that any way to run a bank? Apparently. The girls save around $250 a year in clothing. The bank has sharply reduced its teller turnover rate. Customers, too, seem to like finding a hostess at NBNA. Chairman Friedman gives the program major credit for pushing profits from $5,000,000 in 1964 to more than $12.5 million this year...
...ideological passions that rent the Red '30s, strewing literary corpses and real bodies over the Marxist battlefield, leave the current generation cold. Yet this minor English novelist (Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter) is now accepted generally in England and the U.S. as a major prophet for his political journalism, for his anti-Stalinist fable Animal Farm (1945), and for the political-science-fiction shocker...
Eugene O'Neill will probably be remembered as one of the most flawed major playwrights in history. Aiming for greatness, he often achieved only length. When he tries to make his characters Greek-tragic, they appear just plain accident-prone. The notoriously awkward prose of The Iceman Cometh inspired Mary McCarthy to remark: "You cannot write a Platonic dialogue in the style of Casey...
...passionate intentions, in fact, become his talent-a rude, almost barbaric thrust that can seize a blase Broadway crowd and wring it dry, half from fatigue, half from an emotional buffeting that no other American playwright ever inflicted on an audience. O'Neill could do what only a major artist can do: make his public share in the life of his private demons...